Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-11-26
PUBLIC REJoICINGs.
Return of the Great Falls Party from
Helena Incidents Of the Hell
enic Celebration-Good
Speeches.

mense and the decorations splendid The
enthusiasm of the people was remarkable
the whole city having turnd out to vel
come the visitors. In the procession pres
idents Hill and Broadwater rode in the
same carriage, followed by the other mem
bers of the Hill party who were assigned
/ positions of honor in the line of parade.
The Fort Shaw band rendered inspiring
music and the light artillery fired salute
of welcome which served as signal for
the bells and steam whistles of the city to
join in the tumult, the din reseunding and
re-eehoing from mountain to mountain
After hearty greeting the people as
| sembed at the opera house where exgoy-
ernor Carpenter made an eloquent speech
| in which he said: g The Saint Paul, Min
neapolis & Manitoba and Montana Central
cannot be disassociated in our mind. To
their master spirits the people of Montana
| owe debt OF perpetual thanks-an obli-
CATION that must be faithfully discharged.
| 1t is the heighth of our pleasure to meet
| the men in whose honor we are assembled
| and to address them personally. And now
president James J. Hill and president G.
A. Broadwater, the citizens Of Helena, by
these words of mine, extend to you their
heartiest welcome and their unlimited hos
pitalities.
The speeches are SO full of good things
that it would be hard to make selection
President Hills speech was excellent and
elected hearty approval. He began with
this pleasant reference to colonel Broad
water:
1t is now about three years since | first
saw your beautiful mountains and your
city, the capital of the Territory. Colonel
Broadwater, your enterprising citizen,
was at that.time particularly anxious that
| should come out here to see what field
there was for railway Development, and
whenI came here he did not give me any
peace until he had rushed me over the
mountains four times, | think, in three
days. Laughter.] He insisted that under
every stone was a mine; and he told his
story so well that I am half inclined TO
believe him right. Renewed langhter.l
Later on, when it was decided to build his
road, asked him. what he wanted ask
ed him what he would do; how he would
get his plant out here. "Want? Why"
said he, Il don't Want anything but the
roilc Il WI 4
material and everything out in Montana
to build a railroad; all we want are the
rails; we want to get them here if We can"
[Laughter.l Work started, and when we
were here year ago We found it well adj
vanced. At that time it was decided to
bring the Manitoba out here, and if we
could not get the rails here any other way,
to bring them out on our own line" APP
plause.l We have had a good deal of fun
about the rail question one time and an
other, to allude to it hereafter will be
settled. It won't trouble us as much in
the future. While the Manitoba counts
more miles in the enterprise, think it
is only fair to say that the active end OF it
began out here; the life was put in it from
this end We never would have started,
we never could have started, If we had
not felt that this end was taken care of, or
rather this end wanted to be taken care of,
and We had to come out here to do it.
[Laughter.] It would hardly have been.
fair to have left Broad out here alone,
with grade the boys had to drive over
and call it railroad Laughter
Mr.. Hill then spoke in complimentary
terms OF the pioneers, ''whose patience
and long suffering made it possible for us
to be here He also alluded good Iumor-
edly to the Northern Pacific, saying, 'sour
friendswho wouldn't bring our rails are not
to be counted out on this occasion. Theydld
a great dea! for Montana. Then with
Great Falls and the the Sand Coulee coal
fields in mind he added: aAnd hope
that our company, coming in here over
your own Montana Central road, will not
be behind in contributing its full share to
the future wealth and prosperity of the
country. IApp1a,1se.l We have close by
you what Montana most wants least
this portion. You want on abundance Of
cheap fuel with which to melt down these
mountains, if necessary, and make them
disgorge their hidden wealth. We hope
to be able to help You in that direction, at
least more than you have had heretofore,
aud hope We will not disappoint you. .
Mr. Hill also affirmed his firm faith in
Montana saying: In coming orer the
road now for the third time, If ever we
needed confidence IN the enterprise, We.
feel that we certainly have It now. The
thing grows on US in such a way, the coun
try, the climate, everything grows on US
in such way, that we know Montana is
not to to be put down hereafter alone as a
mining or as q grazing country =
Major Maginnis spoke next and de-
liyered m eloquent address.